| Scientific Name: | Acer saccharinum |
| Common Name: | silver maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Obovate, Dentate, Palmately lobed, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Green-yellow, Red, Mar |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most 10-17cm long x 9-15cm wide, 5 deep acuminate-tipped lobes each with smaller lobes and teeth, lower surface silvery, most petioles 5-9cm long; flowers apetalous, in tight clusters, pedicels 3-4mm long, open in March weeks before leaves emerge; schizocarps 3-4cm wide, thick side of wings at 50-70 degree angle, samaras 3-5cm long, May-June. Winter ID: buds opposite, rounded to ovate, red to brown, marginal hairs on scales, flower buds swell and may open by late winter. | |